Published by Charta.Text by Achille Bonito Oliva, Maurizio Porro.

Milan-based painter Luca Pignatelli suspends isolated figurative bits of history and cultural memory on large canvases that are sewn and patched together in a manner revealing his early training as an architect. In addition, this volume showcases several frames from Hope 1, a short fantasy film featuring his brother Daniele Pignatelli’s work.

Published by Charta.Essay by Danilo Eccher.

In a magical territory, rich in memories and history, along sophisticated paths and across timeless atmospheres, Milan-based Luca Pignatelli draws, with powerful, sudden strokes, “images pleasing no memory, but rather evoking an unexpected narrative contrast, an inner grammar mistake, a sharp false note creating dismay and awakening the eye.”